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  • May 13, 2022
Geophysical Survey

Dam Seepage/ Subsidence Geophysical Survey

An old earthen dam displayed signs of seepage. One state agency wanted to breach and rebuild it immediately, and another agency wanted to repair it. RETTEW was tasked with detecting...

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  • August 25, 2021

Residential Comprehensive Sinkhole Survey

An engineer was investigating whether a homeowner’s insurance policy would cover damages to their property due to a sinkhole. To provide confident detection of potential subsurface features and properties associated...

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  • May 25, 2021

Churchyard Cemetery Mapping

A church was concerned that its walled cemetery excluded some very old unmarked graves, likely containing wooden caskets, given their age. To resolve this uncertainty, RETTEW conducted a ground penetrating...

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  • February 26, 2021

Bedrock Depth Mapping at a Solar Farm

A solar farm was expanding onto a hill where a limestone rock outcrop was observed. This raised concerns about shallow rock that could impede installation of the driven rods that...

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  • November 30, 2020

Crosshole Geophysical Tomography for a Tunneling Project

RETTEW’s Geophysics team recently assisted a client with a tunneling project. The tunnel path was at a depth at which surface geophysics could not resolve potential small zones of concern,...

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  • August 20, 2020

Sunoco Service Station Mise à la Masse Survey

Gasoline that spills on a pervious surface or leaks from an underground storage tank will infiltrate downward until it encounters the groundwater table. Since gasoline is less dense than water,...

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  • May 26, 2020
Seismic-hazard-analysis

Critical Care Facility Seismic Hazard Analysis

Earthquake-resistant construction is expensive, especially in a place like the New York metropolitan area. A health care client was looking for the most cost-effective design for a critical care facility...

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  • September 3, 2019

Geophysical Borehole Logging for Landfill Monitoring Well Placement

A growing landfill required constant monitoring along its periphery to ensure aging liners and containment systems were functioning as designed. New monitoring wells were needed in key locations at proposed...

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  • December 19, 2018
Gravity Survey

Roadway Void Detection Survey

Our client experienced poor surface drainage and subsidence along a roadway in central Pennsylvania. These occurrences made road conditions dangerous. RETTEW/Enviroscan’s geophysics team surveyed the terrain to locate the source...

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